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...Edner's death followed Harry Truman's 1947 decision to help stem Red aggression in Greece. Smith and Williams died in the airlift that foiled the 1948-49 Berlin blockade. Harding and Goodwin were the first Americans killed in Korea after North Koreans crossed the 38th parallel in 1950. Medendorp and Lynn died in 1954 when Red China loosed a thunderous artillery barrage against Nationalist-held Quemoy island. Anderson's U-2 reconnaissance plane was shot down over Cuba during the 1962 missile crisis. Davis died when his truck hit a mine 18 miles from Saigon...
CUBA Do-It-Yourself Airlift...
...Cuban airlift can handle only a trickle of the flood of Cubans who would leave for the mainland if they could. For those who are barred by Castro or lack the patience to wait as much as five years for a plane seat, there are other routes. Last week four Cubans hijacked a 43-ft. government mineral-resources boat and tootled into the Florida Keys. Seven others put into Marathon, Fla., in a 16-ft. sailboat, and the U.S. Coast Guard rescued an other twelve Cubans in a small craft just off the Cuban coast. But the week...
When Fidel Castro started promoting an airlift to evacuate Cubans to Miami last October, Washington figured that as many as 75,000 refugees might take him up on it. Fidel talked in terms of 100,000, then later 150,000. Both sides underestimated the Cubans' desire to flee the bleak little Communist isle. Last week Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Robert M. Sayre told Congress that Cuban refugees in the U.S. have applied for the evacuation of no fewer than 900,000 relatives-fully one-seventh of Cuba's population...
...short months, Zambia has found eleven routes around the block ade, which Rhodesia started as retaliation against Britain. British, American and Canadian airlifts are bringing in oil from ports on both the Atlantic and Indian oceans, while trains, trucks, lake boats and barges are hauling it in from as far away as Dar es Salaam (transportation costs run as high as $3.50 per gallon). Last week negotiations were under way for yet another airlift-this one from Mozambique, whose Portuguese rulers may sympathize with Prime Minister Ian Smith and his white rebels but who long ago learned to cover their...